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Table of notable squats in the USA edit

Squatting in the United States
Name Image Location History (green=ongoing, pink=closed) Reference
ABC No Rio   Manhattan, New York City squatted 1980, legalized 1997 [1]
Bullet Space   Manhattan, New York City squatted 1986, legalized 2009
C-Squat   Manhattan, New York City squatted 1989, legalized 2002 [2]
Dignity Village   Portland, Oregon squatted 2000 [3]
Dos Blockos Manhattan, New York City squatted 1992, evicted 1999 [4]
Freedom Tunnel   Under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City squatted 1980s onwards [5]
Gowanus Batcave   Brooklyn, New York City squatted 2000s, then evicted [6]
Occupy the Farm Albany, California squatted 2012, evicted 2012, squatted 2013, evicted 2013 [7][8]
Occupy Wall Street   Zuccotti Park, Manhattan, New York City squatted 2011, evicted 2011 [9]
Seneca Village   What is now Central Park, Manhattan, New York City squatted 1825, evicted 1857 [10]
Slab City   Sonoran Desert, California. squatted 1960s onwards [11]
Umbrella House   Manhattan, New York City squatted 1988, legalized 2010 [12]
Umoja Village Miami, Florida squatted 2006, destroyed 2007 [13]

References edit

  1. ^ Moore, Alan W. (2017). "ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space". In Goyens, Tom (ed.). Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York city from Schwab's saloon to occupy Wall Street. Urbana: University of Illinois. pp. 201–220. ISBN 978-0-252-08254-2.
  2. ^ Correal, Annie (12 June 2015). "Photographs From the History of C-Squat, a Punk Homestead". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  3. ^ Emerson, Joan Yasui. "Dignity Village". Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  4. ^ Cooper, Michael (28 April 1999). "Police Evict Band of Squatters Barricaded in the East Village". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. ^ Voeten, Teun (2010). Tunnel people. Oakland, CA: PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-070-2.
  6. ^ Frishberg, Hannah (2 January 2015). "The Vice and Vagrants of Old-School Gowanus". Narratively. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  7. ^ Raguso, Emilie (14 May 2012). "Nine Arrested After Early-Morning Police Raid at Gill Tract". Albany Patch. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  8. ^ Upton, John (14 May 2013). "Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided". Grist. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  9. ^ "New York court upholds eviction of Occupy protesters". CNN. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  10. ^ Rosenzweig, Roy (1992). The park and the people: A history of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-8014-9751-5.
  11. ^ Sorensen, Steve (10 March 1988). "Slab City and its neighborhoods: Poverty Flats, Niland Heights, Little Canada, Slab City Singles, and Drop Seven and Drop Eight". San Diego Reader. Retrieved 3 February 2023. In the Fifties, after the base was torn down, the land was returned to the State of California, which owns it today. Before long, desert campers and weekend fishermen visiting the Salton Sea learned that the concrete slabs made clean and convenient places to set up camps. Guests staying at the hot-spring spas north of Niland used to organize dances on the slabs, and, eventually, retired people began hauling their trailers out to the slabs to spend the winter.
  12. ^ Moynihan, Colin (17 July 2015). "Umbrella House: East Village Co-op Run by Former Squatters". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  13. ^ Rameau, Max (2008). Take back the land: Land, gentrification and the Umoja Village shantytown. Miami, FL: Nia Interactive Press. ISBN 978-1-4348-4556-6.
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